rick_hershey
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Empty Room Studios is proud to bring you the official launch of the Steampunk Musha Website.
Feel free to check out the artwork in the gallery, read the short fiction, or download cool bonuses for the upcoming rpg. And make sure you let us know about it in the forum!
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Imagine an island where tradition wars against technology. The last of the samurai have nowhere to turn, and yakuza thugs and street fighters now hold the respect of the streets. Shangti Cowboys have showed the island the power of firearms, and Mechanists have proven the triumph of machine over superstition. But the old ways linger. Kabukika, warriors of the theater and users of magic, hold onto their traditions, as do the Nikobo, who find that as the land travels farther from its traditions, its spirits grow restless...
Both humans and their gaijin cousins toil to rebuild from the last war, and the Clockwork Ronin, remnants of that era, struggle to find a home. Juunishi-po, a people born to resemble the forms of the zodiac, and keshou, distant relatives of goblins once kept as slaves, have learned to embrace the new technology and bring glory to their people. The Jinteki-Oni, half-me and half-demon, have come down from their mountain homes to learn the ways of men. Change has come quickly to the island, and these changes bring chaos, on which the demons of old still thrive.
This is the world of Rosuto-Shima, a setting for Iron Gauntlets. Introducing four new races, a host of new vocations, several new skills and styles, and four kits that combine background and vocation as a single unit, Steampunk Musha combines Asian flavor fantasy with Victorian technology to create a world of tradition, technology, and chaos. High fantasy and science fiction clash and combine in a conflict of old and new, father and son, clockwork and spiritual. The world is changing. How will you change it?
Feel free to check out the artwork in the gallery, read the short fiction, or download cool bonuses for the upcoming rpg. And make sure you let us know about it in the forum!
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Imagine an island where tradition wars against technology. The last of the samurai have nowhere to turn, and yakuza thugs and street fighters now hold the respect of the streets. Shangti Cowboys have showed the island the power of firearms, and Mechanists have proven the triumph of machine over superstition. But the old ways linger. Kabukika, warriors of the theater and users of magic, hold onto their traditions, as do the Nikobo, who find that as the land travels farther from its traditions, its spirits grow restless...
Both humans and their gaijin cousins toil to rebuild from the last war, and the Clockwork Ronin, remnants of that era, struggle to find a home. Juunishi-po, a people born to resemble the forms of the zodiac, and keshou, distant relatives of goblins once kept as slaves, have learned to embrace the new technology and bring glory to their people. The Jinteki-Oni, half-me and half-demon, have come down from their mountain homes to learn the ways of men. Change has come quickly to the island, and these changes bring chaos, on which the demons of old still thrive.
This is the world of Rosuto-Shima, a setting for Iron Gauntlets. Introducing four new races, a host of new vocations, several new skills and styles, and four kits that combine background and vocation as a single unit, Steampunk Musha combines Asian flavor fantasy with Victorian technology to create a world of tradition, technology, and chaos. High fantasy and science fiction clash and combine in a conflict of old and new, father and son, clockwork and spiritual. The world is changing. How will you change it?
